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I am so pleased to report that James Yoon Shin, the intrepid activist with the exuberantly painted and printed car who was striving to raise awareness coast to coast on his drive from Venice, California to New York City has been released from prison in Connecticut.

With his car, Yoon Shin was seeking to inform Americans (who are still being fed distortions and lies from mainstream media about “Targeted Individuals” being paranoid schizophrenics) about the ongoing deadly secret policing (with EMF weapons and neuroweapons) and political oppression of wrongfully targeted civilians in the US and worldwide, which local law enforcement, fusion centers, and national heads of intelligence/security agencies are still seeking desperately to hide. He was also seeking to say prayers at sites he felt needed prayers–these included Masonic temples, Jewish temples, and Montessori schools. Because of his focus on Jewish temples, much misunderstood (explained further by him in the letter below and in recent videos), he became the target of a man-hunt and was arrested (with some violence, he reports) while sitting in his car saying a prayer in Stamford, Connecticut. That story was reported here earlier.

Yoon’s seven-month ordeal in prison and dealing with a court and judicial system which sought unsuccessfully to paint him as violent yielded more insight, he says, into the injustice and corruption of both the jail and the justice system. I hope to explore these issues further with Yoon in articles and podcasts to come. Meanwhile, please see his long letter below which details his trek and mission, his experience of arrest, and his slowly building understanding of current-day American police and court system corruption. What he reveals is extremely troubling, about the actions of Law Enforcement, judges, and public defenders against civilians; the candor and openness of his letter offers an intimate insight into his experience. At his first video on Youtube reporting his release, he writes: “The state of Connecticut is probably the most corrupt state in this country…the irony is not lost on me that the very “Corruption” I tried to expose is the exact corruption that would put me behind bars.”

The most extraordinary aspect to me is what he reports as a spiritual transformation; already a spiritual and peace-pursuing person, he says his incarceration has yielded new richness on a spiritual plane; he is emerging now with a new attitude and a stronger and refreshed view of life.

My first intimation of Yoon’s release came with this note he left beneath a video on my (still-nascent) Youtube channel yesterday morning:

Hey Ramola D, this is Yoon Shin, the targeted individual who was arrested in Stamford, CT that you wrote about on your website. I was finally released on 3-21-17 and am currently in New York. I wrote you a lengthy letter addressed to your gmail account, detailing the circumstances surrounding my arrest.

Yoon’s letter is below; I’ve merely added headers for ease of reading and proofed a bit. Also linked are his two new Youtube videos detailing his experience. I have spoken to Yoon a little about his experience; please stay tuned for further articles and interviews. Please contact him, as well, for interviews and podcasts, if you run True Media shows or articles, and don’t work for CIA-run Fake Media. Because so much clouding of the issue has surrounded the “Jewish” focus of his mission, Yoon is keen to set the record straight and clear his name. Most especially, he wishes all to know he never was nor is anti-Semitic in any way, despite the language on some of his videos referencing “Jewish gangstalkers”; he notes his criticisms were aimed more at the “corrupt Jewish elite/Mafia”, that he wished no-one harm, never engaged in anything but the most peaceful action, and was literally “arrested for saying a prayer”.

–Ramola D/March 28, 2017

Letter from Yoon Shin/March 27, 2017

This is Yoon Shin, the Targeted Individual who was arrested in Stamford, CT on 8-11-16.

I read your article about my circumstances and wanted to thank you for the support and exposure of my “Spiritual Journey.”

I was finally released on 3-21-2017 after 7 months of incarceration on falsified charges. The circumstances surrounding my arrest, incarceration, hospitalizaion, and release are like my life, beyond belief.

I was arrested initially on charges of “Breach of Peace,” “Inciting to hurt/harm person or damage property,” and “Simple Trespassing,” all of which were trumped-up charges.

To give you an idea of how corrupt the state of Connecticut is: Law Enforcement, the penal and judicial system were all complicit in the persecution of a peaceful activist who was literally arrested for saying a prayer quietly in his car which was parked legally on the side of a public road.

My arrest was a pre-planned setup that was designed to frame me as some sort of hate-filled, anti-Semitic terrorist who was endangering Jewish people and their community.

Arrested in Stamford, Connecticut

Unfortunately, because of the “Maccabi Games”— a Jewish youth, multi-sport event which I’d never heard of, which was being held right down the street from Temple Beth El where I was arrested, and with the inflammatory comments I made in some videos regarding “Jewish Gangstalkers” and the corrupt Jewish Elite/Mafia a month prior to my arrest, it gave them the perfect excuse to set me up and arrest me on falsified charges.

Being aware of my “Spiritual Journey” and having tracked me even before I started my cross-country trip, they knew I was not a threat nor had any weapons in my vehicle.

I had been to literally over a 100 Jewish Temples and Montessori Schools to say my cleansing prayers which were mostly welcomed at these places without a single incident prior to my arrest.

I even had a rabbi — Rabbi Wisnia in Princeton, New Jersey, who invited me into his temple/office where we had a lengthy discussion about my journey. He seemed fascinated about my journey, offering me food and drink, and even allowing me to say the prayers inside the room where they kept the “Torah.”

Anticipating that I was going to be arrested in New York City, my final destination, I skipped over New York and headed to Connecticut in the hopes of avoiding arrest, but it didn’t matter where I went, they were going to put an end to my journey — I was on my way to New York and had stopped off at a couple of Jewish Temples in Connecticut on the way.

Just a few days prior to my arrest, in New Jersey, cops had threatened me when I was at another Jewish Temple, intimating that I was going to be arrested and I was no longer welcomed at these Jewish Temples.

Because of these threats, I stopped driving onto the temple property to request permission for the prayers, but would do a drive-by prayer where I parked nearby and prayed in my vehicle before leaving quickly.

This is exactly what I was doing when I was arrested in Stamford, CT — parked legally on the side of a public road, across the street from a Jewish Temple.

I was parked there for less than 20 seconds before a Stamford Police vehicle pulled up behind me and a cop started screaming at me to get out of my vehicle with my hands in the air.

As I attempted to step barefoot out of my vehicle, an officer yanked me out, and slammed me against the vehicle, handcuffing me behind my back.

I asked him, “What am I being charged with? I did nothing wrong,” to which he responded, “Shut up!”

He yanked me to the back of my vehicle where we waited for backup which showed up immediately.

After confirming that Officer Martinez who had just arrived had a cage in his vehicle, he handed me off to Officer Martinez who then proceeded to physically assault me with no provocation from me. (Described further in Yoon’s video below.)

When I asked again, “What am I being arrested for? I did nothing wrong,” in response, Officer Martinez of the Stamford Police Department whipped me around the door by my handcuffed hands, yanking my arms upward at a severe angle, causing extreme pain, then proceeded to knee me viciously in the side of my body before shoving me into the back of the police cruiser. I was not even the slight bit resistant to arrest nor did I ever say anything besides questioning why I was being arrested.

As I sat in disbelief, handcuffed in the back of the vehicle, they proceeded to block off the entire road as I watched a cavalcade of Police show up at the scene.

After watching seemingly the entire deployment of the Stamford Police Department arrive at the scene, Officer Martinez drove me across the street into the Temple parking lot which was empty due to the early hour — 9:30 am.

Assaulted with DEWs while Being Surrounded by Police Cars: Attempt to Incite a Violent Reaction?

After being questioned in the vehicle by a senior officer in charge who repeatedly informed me that I would be released once a search of my vehicle didn’t reveal anything incriminating, Officer Martinez backed the vehicle up over a curb into a grassy, wooded area to isolate me for the “Directed-Energy Weapon” (DEW) attacks.

They proceeded to surround me with 3 police vehicles — one in front and 2 on either side of the vehicle which commenced to blast the shit out of me for the next 3 hours under the pretense of a sweep by the bomb squad.

They knew I had no weapons in the car. (I felt) the intent of being detained was to try and elicit a violent reaction out of me so they had something valid to charge me with.

After trying desperately to alleviate the DEW attacks through meditation, I finally had to lie down in the back seat to lessen the intensity of the attacks which diminished considerably once I was below the level of the windows, hiding behind the metal doors.

Since I was no longer in the direct line of fire from DEWs, they sent numerous officers to blast me while they questioned me through the open rear door.

A local F.B.I. agent was especially sadistic, blasting me with a DEW which was encased in a boxy folder which he held oddly with both hands in front of him, with the top end pointed directly at me while he questioned me. I finally had to tell him to get away from me as I had extreme difficulty dealing with the attack.

False Charges Made, to Justify Arrest

After failing to incite a violent reaction out of me, they should have released me, as was the case in all my previous stops, but having gone through setting up this elaborate plan which involved so much time and personnel which failed miserably, instead of releasing me, they had me arrested on “Breach of Peace.”

While being booked at the downtown Stamford Police Department, they phoned in an additional charge of “Inciting to hurt/harm person or damage property” and I was then also cited for “Simple Trespassing.”

To accuse me of trespassing, they backed my vehicle onto a private residential driveway, perpendicular to the path of the driveway to make it look like I had parked in the driveway.

The corrupt F.B.I. agent also followed me to the booking which was delayed for over an hour just so he could blast me more in a final attempt to incite a violent reaction out of me. After finally being booked, I was put in a cell that subjected me to more continuous DEW attacks till the next day of my arraignment.

Never had I endured such a long, non-stop, relentless, continuous attack as I experienced on that day of my arrest — by next morning, the attacks had left me in a surreal state with my head in a dense fog and my entire body ringing like a bell with nausea, dizziness, and debilitation.

At my bail arraignment the next day, Judge Grogins raised my initial bail of 5,000.00 to 15,000.00 cash bail after I was unable to bail myself out on the day of the arrest. Although I had the funds to bail myself out at the booking the previous day, the bail bondsman I contacted refused to take a debit card and asked for 5000.00 cash.

The judge also ordered a “mental competency exam” which by law is supposed to be conducted within 15 days of the order, but was not completed until well after 2 months into my incarceration and only after I complained and wrote out a formal request about the delay.

This was one of numerous Federal/State Constitutional Rights and Statutes that were violated against me during my arrest, incarceration, hospitalization, and trial. I was also arrested without a warrant or probable cause, and my vehicle was seized without a warrant as well.

During my mental competency exam, given (2 months later) at Osborn Correctional Institution by a 3-team panel, I was attacked yet again with DEWs during the entire exam. Mrs. Helm, who was part of the 3-team panel and who testified against me in court for the Prosecution during my mental competency hearing, made numerous references to the pain in my neck, a favorite place for them to inflict pain in my body, by constantly rubbing her neck.

In the same way that I was convicted on falsified charges through an erroneous report and testimony, I was also deemed mentally incompetent through the same way at my competency hearing.

To give you an idea of how corrupt and pre-determined my competency hearing was, on 10-27-16, Mrs. Helms, who took the stand to testify on behalf of the Prosecution about my mental status, could not even answer a simple question posed to her by myself which was relayed to her through my Public Defender.

When asked what I said or what statements I made or how she came to the conclusion that I wasn’t mentally competent to stand trial, looking like a deer in headlights, she could not even utter a single word in response.

You would think that your attorney would pursue this line of questioning when his client’s entire legal recourse was at stake, but instead, bailing her out, he quickly interjected, “No more questions, your Honor.”

Now, one would assume the judge would question why Mrs. Helms could not answer the most basic of questions, the very reason she was there to testify, but instead (of doing that), he immediately excused her from the stand, and closed the hearing quickly by ordering a 60-day stay at the Connecticut Valley Hospital to “restore my mental competency.”

There are only two criteria that have to be met to be deemed mentally competent to stand trial: understand legal court procedure and be able to assist your legal counsel in your defense.

Now, I may not be an attorney, but I certainly know the basics of legal court procedure and it was I who did everything in my power to assist my legal counsel who willfully ignored me and hindered my case.

Public Defender Communicates Only After Complaint

For the first two months of incarceration, I had no Attorney/Client relationship with my Public Defender, Benjamin Aponte, who refused to return numerous messages left for him nor to answer a letter written to him.

The only time he made himself available to me for a scheduled phone call was only after I wrote a letter to the head of the Stamford Public Defender’s office to complain about my lack of Attorney/Client relationship.

In this phone call, he initially refused to file any motions for me, but reluctantly agreed to file some motions at the end of our conversation because of my demands and insistence that he file them.

Because he refused to send me a copy of the police report, the majority of the conversation was spent having him read the report which was filled with outright lies and fabrications.

Not Permitted to Enter Court on Court Dates; Public Defender Fails to Submit Appeal on 2-Month-Delayed Mental Competency Findings

During my first 2 court dates, I was not even allowed to set foot inside the court room. I was the only prisoner brought to the court house who was held in the holding cell the entire time without being allowed to speak to their attorney and/or enter the court room before being taken straight back to prison.

When asked why this happened, Mr. Aponte informed me that it was a mistake, that I wasn’t supposed to be there and that they were waiting on the mental competency exam which was supposed to have been given 2 months ago.

He also willfully ignored my requests to appeal the mental competency findings, stating ignorance, and not submitting the appeal that I sent him while at the hospital.

Public Defender Recused–but Due Process and Access to the Courts Denied

Needless to say, I had to file a grievance against him with the State Bar to recuse him as my Defender at my Competency Hearing after my stay at Connecticut Valley Hospital where they miraculously “restored my Mental Competency.”

Because of the adversarial relationship due to the grievance filed against my attorney, the judge had no choice but to recuse him as my Defender.

After the judge allowed me to self-represent myself and go “Pro Se,” for the first time since my incarceration, I had some say in my legal proceedings. But despite the fact that I now had some recourse legally, they denied me “Due Process” and “Access to the Courts” by not allowing me to access the legal library where I could educate myself and prepare my defense.

To further hinder my preparation of defense, after I was deemed mentally competent at the hearing on 12-27-16, I was transferred to Garner Correctional Institution which had no access to the library. The excuse given was that the librarian had retired in April so they had to close the library down.

After a month at Garner, I was transferred back to Osborn Correctional Institution where I was able to access the library only one time before my trial, as they were constantly canceling our scheduled library days in a blatant attempt to keep me from preparing my defense and getting help from the legal clerk at the library.

This is how the penal system gets away with violating countless inmate Constitutional rights by keeping prisoners ignorant of the judicial procedure/laws and their rights to be treated humanely.

At Osborn Prison where I spent the majority of my time, all the inmates were subjected to toxic “asbestos and black mold.” There were taped, sealed doors with warning signs about the dangers of asbestos, and they had closed down several blocks because of the presence of the toxin as if the asbestos was only relegated to those blocks. The fact that Osborn Correctional Institution, the oldest prison in Connecticut is allowed to stay open is a testament to how intrinsic and prevalent the corruption is. This tiny state has over 20 prisons, more per capita than any other state, which is indicative of the rampant corruption in this state.

Many Motions Filed Pro Se, All Motions Denied

Once, I went Pro Se, I began to file numerous motions to adjudicate the injustice surrounding my arrest and incarceration, but all my motions were denied by another corrupt judge who presided over my pretrial hearings, Judge White.

My motions for Dismissal, Probable Cause, Evidentiary Hearing, Return and Suppression of Seized Property, Warrantless Arrest, amongst others, were all denied without scarcely allowing me to be heard, and rushing me out of the hearing as quickly as possible. The Discovery material — the evidence — the police report, that the state had against me, was only given to me a month before my trial started.

After 6 months of incarceration, I was finally offered a plea deal which would have released me with time served, if I would have admitted guilt to a misdemeanor –“Breach of Peace” — while the state dropped the Class C felony of “Inciting to hurt/harm person or damage property.”

But, having committed no crime nor broken any law, I refused the deal, which put the State in a tenuous position.

If you ask any prisoner what the worst part of being incarcerated is, everyone will tell you it’s the court date. The entire penal and judicial system is designed to make the court dates as uncomfortable and miserable as possible so the inmates will take any plea deal that is offered just so they don’t have to go through it again.

They begin by waking you up at 3:30 am in the morning, then put you through something called “Bullpen Therapy” which encompasses packing you into a holding cell with 20-30 other prisoners throughout the entire court day, where even the benches are designed so you can’t sit on them without sliding off.

You are trussed up like a pig, chained to other inmates, and transported to court in the “Ice Cream Truck,” so-called for its tiny capacity inside and freezing temperature. The back of the seats are angled forward so it’s impossible to sit straight or without back problems, and inmates can be kept in this torture chamber for hours on end waiting to get processed after court.

I’ve had court days where I didn’t return to my prison till midnight — that’s a 20-hour day of torture.

Original Charges Dropped; New Charges Concocted

Because I refused to succumb to this torture or be broken by the endless attacks from gang-stalkers that surrounded me, the State had to drop the original charges, and instead substituted 4 new counts which had nothing to do with the original charges.

Constantly kept in the dark about my hearings, I was surprised with a jury selection when I went to court one day for what I assumed was a Motion Hearing.

At the hearing, I stated I wasn’t prepared for the trial or jury selection, as Judge White, at my last Motion Hearing refused to set a trial date or acknowledge that my case was even being put on Disposition or the Trial list.

I knew I was in trouble from the start, when only one juror was selected by the time I had exhausted all my objections to jurors, as I saw the jury selection was compromised from the beginning to bring in a corrupt panel.

While I was appointed a Stand-By Counsel, Barry Butler, Head of the Stamford Public Defender’s office, I was denied “Special Counsel” by Judge Blawie, overruling Judge Grogins’ order at my competency hearing on 12-27-16, which would have allowed me to have the State appoint a “Private Counsel” who wasn’t part of the state’s Public Defender office.

Knowing they couldn’t convict me on the original charges –“Breach of Peace” and “Inciting to hurt/harm person or damage property” — the State substituted 4 new charges: 3 counts of “Obstructing, Resisting or Hindering a Peace Officer,” and one count of “Disorderly Conduct,” a week before the start of the trial.

Corruption Evident at Trial; Portrayal as Anti-Semitic Terrorist

The trial itself was corruption personified with the only evidence the State presented being false testimonies from 5 corrupt police officers who lied about literally everything that happened at my arrest.

Although the State didn’t present the video where I make inflammatory remarks about “Jewish Gangstalkers,” they didn’t have to, as they just repeatedly reiterated what was said — “Desecrate Jewish Temples” and “Cleanse Jewish people from this planet” — with every police witness that took the stand, portraying me as some sort of hate-filled, anti-Semitic terrorist with a vendetta against Jewish people.

Although I was not on trial for the statements I made on those videos which were made a month prior to my arrest and had no relevance to the charges, the State’s entire case was based on those inflammatory comments, portraying me as an anti-Semitic terrorist.

I am not proud of those videos where I make many derogatory comments about Jewish people, but the statements were taken out of context, as I’m referring to “Jewish Gangstalkers” and the “Jewish Elite/Mafia” who control all the finances of the world, and not Jewish people in general.

I have absolutely nothing against Jewish people or their faith or any other race for that matter. The only thing I’m against is “Corruption.”

I had made those videos in response to being harassed, stalked, and attacked relentlessly with DEWS all day. Afterwards I realized I didn’t want people to get the wrong impression or misunderstand what I meant by the term “desecrate,” so I made subsequent videos explaining clearly what I meant by the term “desecrate”. I clearly explain in these videos that I meant to desecrate the temples with the Lord’s Prayer and nothing else. I don’t condone violence in any manner, and prayers are the only thing I’ve ever done on this entire journey at all the places I’ve visited. There are countless people who can come forward and attest to my prayers, and many have thanked me graciously for them, including Jewish Congregation members.

Fabricated Testimony: Contradictions and Lies from Policemen

During my trial, I was expecting policemen to lie, but the extent to which the State went to fabricate testimony was truly shocking.

Two out of the three police officers who accused me of interfering with a police officer, I had never seen before in my life. They may have been at the scene of the arrest, but I certainly had no interaction with them at all.

The first officer to take the stand, Lieutenant Baker, whom I’d never seen before in my life, accused me of not co-operating with him by refusing to turn over my license or registration. He further stated that I refused to turn off my vehicle nor got out the vehicle when requested. He also stated, that after refusing to turn off my vehicle, he talked to me for a couple of minutes with my car running.

The second officer who was supposedly with him, Sgt. Perrota, claimed also that I refused to turn off the vehicle, and he had to reach inside to turn the vehicle off himself at a certain point.

Unbelievably, they both claimed that I wasn’t handcuffed despite the fact that they were aware of an alert sent out to all Law Enforcement to be on the lookout for a man traveling cross- country in a blue car with writing all over it, who was visiting Jewish Temples. They had also been informed of threatening comments I (was supposed to have) made in a video provided by a F.B.I. memo, not to mention (their own statement) that I allegedly refused to co-operate with them, yet they claimed, I still wasn’t handcuffed.

Sgt. Perrota and Officer Martinez who actually physically assaulted me, both claim that I allegedly resisted being put into the back of a police vehicle.

Sgt. Trew, head of the Bomb Squad that conducted the sweep of my car, also alleged that I wasn’t handcuffed when he allowed me out of the vehicle to speak to me.

On the other hand, Sgt. Broems claimed that I was handcuffed, contradicting the testimony of 4 other police officers. He alleged that he observed me resisting from 20 feet away when Sgt. Perrota and Officer Martinez attempted to put me into the back of the police vehicle.

Incredibly (however), he further stated that I was able to resist being placed in the back of the vehicle for a “Full” minute with the 2 police officers while being handcuffed behind my back, yet didn’t provide assistance because he thought the officers — Sgt. Perrota and Officer Martinez — had the situation under control. He stated that he didn’t help because he didn’t want to make it seem like they were “ganging up” on (me).

Sgt. Trew and Officer Martinez both claimed that I was eventually handcuffed only after I was let out of the vehicle a second time, when I resisted being placed in the vehicle again and started yelling and screaming anti-Semitic statements. Sgt. Trew claimed that because of the proximity of a school nearby with kids, at that point it was necessary to finally put cuffs on me.

He further claimed, that during my alleged resistance, he had to enter the police vehicle from the opposite rear door and climb across the seat to pull me in by my handcuffed hands because “It was the path of least resistance.”

Sgt. Trew also contradicted all four policemen who claimed my car was parked on a private residential driveway by saying my car was parked on the side of a public road and not on the driveway.

All the policemen alleged I yelled, screamed, and shrieked anti-Semitic statements, and Sgt. Perrota and Officer Martinez accused me of saying I was being attacked by “Ray Guns” and “X-Ray Guns”.

This is how ridiculous the testimonies from the police officers were during my trial. Because they lied about everything, they couldn’t even keep their stories straight.

To try and justify the absurd, farcical testimony from the officers, the idiotic State Prosecutor, Mr. Cummings, in his closing statements argued “So what if the officers contradicted themselves. Who cares if he was handcuffed or not? So there were some inconsistencies, it happened a long time ago.”

Conviction and Release Despite Lies and Complicity

Despite the fact that I was able to point out all these contradictions, inconsistencies, and allegations that simply made no sense during the cross-examination and closing arguments, the rigged jury deliberated for less than 30 minutes before convicting me on all charges.

My expectations of winning the case were minimal considering that every part of the trial from the jury, prosecution, and judge were compromised, but it’s still staggering to think that people in the Law Enforcement and judicial system have no compunction about being complicit in the conviction of an innocent man.

At my sentencing, 2 weeks later, surprisingly, the judge released me with time served — 7 months — on a “Conditional Release”: I had 72 hours to leave the state, seek mental health services, and he not only banned me from Jewish Temples, synagogues, schools, but also from the state of Connecticut for 2 years — he actually put a protective order on the entire state from me.

I could have been sentenced to 3 1/2 years max, but they got so fed up with me, they released me, although I took the case to trial without accepting a plea deal. My stating I’d file an appeal if I was sentenced to more time may have been a factor in releasing me as well.

Growing Spiritually

As stressful and hellacious as my time in prison was, my incarceration has been a blessing in disguise, transforming me, allowing me to grow spiritually, and strengthen my inner resolve.

I have learned so much while I was incarcerated, and I came out with a completely different state of mind which has allowed me to let go of the paranoid schizoid frame of mind that consumed me before I was arrested.

Ironically, while I was never under more attack and chaos in my life during my term in prison, I have never been at more peace with my life than ever before with a calm and serenity giving me a sense of indestructibility to handle anything that comes my way — .God’s way of preparing me for my “Spiritual Journey” in my life.

I managed to get my car back and am currently sleeping out of my car in New York while trying to take care of legal matters before I go back across the country to California.

Thanks very much to Yoon Shin for this detailed and thoughtful letter. Posted with permission.

Yoon is currently striving to locate an attorney to help file an appeal and also seeking to connect with others wrongfully targeted and aware in New York, please contact him if able to help; you can leave a comment below his videos on Youtube, or send an email to me, I will pass it on. — Ramola D